About CS-SUNN
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Our story
The Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen has food and is nutrition secured. We pursue this lofty goal by engaging government and non-state actors to raise awareness, sustain commitment and actions to effectively tackle under-nutrition in Nigeria. The coalition was formally launched on the 7th of August, 2014.
We have a common vision with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, clear accountability and sustainability framework. The guiding principles of the alliance include;
Evidence based decision making, Gender mainstreaming, Equity, Feed- back, Diversity, Value for money Transparency and Integrity.
The coalition draws from the wealth of experience of its Steering Committee members headed by Dr. David Olayemi of Save the Children an expert in nutrition advocacy as Chairman, Beatrice Eluaka, a former Nutrition Society of Nigeria president and Head of Nutrition in the Federal Ministry of Health who heads the Secretariat as project Director, etc. and the General Assembly which is made up of organisations and individuals who have carved a niche for themselves in the field of public health nutrition and food security.
What Drives us
Our Vision
A country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured.
Our Mission
To mobilize Non State Actors to advocate, generate evidence, build capacity and stimulate communities to scale up nutrition in Nigeria.
Our Objectives
- To advocate for effective coordination of all nutrition stakeholders and programmes in Nigeria
- To create a platform through which Civil Society Organizations can effectively advocate for improved nutrition in Nigeria
- To advocate and engage government to create nutrition budget lines in some key Federal and state Ministries in Nigeria as well as include CSOs in nutrition interventions as appropriate
- To encourage and strongly advocate for the establishment of an effective and functional nutrition surveillance monitoring and evaluation systems
- To build the capacity of CS-SUNN members to effectively engage in the pursuit of improved nutrition in Nigeria.
Governance Structure
The coalition in line with its constitution is structured as follows:
- General Assembly (GA) vested with legislative powers of the coalition, made up of members of the coalition.
- The Board of Trustees (BOT) is to perform ceremonial/legal, oversight and advocacy functions for the coalition.
- The Steering Committee (SC) serves as the executive committee and supervises the nomination of the BOT members. They provide oversight of the day-to-day activities of the Coalition and its National Secretariat It shall represent the coalition in all National nutrition issues, programmes and events.
Membership Spread of the coalition
S/N | ZONE | No. of Registered Members |
1 | SE | 4 |
2 | SW | 15 |
3 | SS | 9 |
4 | NE | 3 |
5 | NW | 21 |
6 | NC | 57 |
· Now made up of 109 registered member organizations
Overview of Projects
The partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) in Nigeria is a social accountability project implemented through the strategy of partnership building of indigenous CSOs, champions and activists to catalyze government at national and state levels in Nigeria to fulfill commitments on child and family health.
The project directly Targets women of reproductive age (15-49), children aged 0 to 5. Women of reproductive age are estimated to be 18% of the Nigerian population of 180,000,000, or 32,400,000. The population of children under the age of five is estimated to be 17.1%, or 30,780,000 children. It also targets CSOs whose capacity will be built to advocate for nutrition and indirectly child and family health decision makers in government at the national and state levels.
The programmatic scope of the project will cover four key issue areas in child and family health (family planning, nutrition, routine immunization, ending deadly childhood diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea). The geographic scope of the project will cover all 3 focal states and will also focus on government at national and state levels. At the national level, the project will engage government to fulfill promises, to increase funding and to establish the regulatory framework to guide implementation at state level (Please download complete project details from our site; www.cs-sunn.org/ongoingproject
